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AB155891

Total Carbohydrate Assay Kit - Quantification

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Total Carbohydrate Assay (ab155891) is a simple, sensitive and robust method of detecting virtually all carbohydrates.
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Carbohydrates measured in orange juice and caster sugar. Background signal subtracted, duplicates; +/- SD.

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Carbohydrates in food items and mouse tissue lysates, shown as mg per mg of extracted protein (duplicates; +/- SD).

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D-Glucose standard curve generated using the method described in the protocol bookelt.

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Carbohydrates from lysed non-differentiated or adipose differentiated 3T3L1 cells (duplicates; +/- SD). Cells were differentiated using a mixture of small molecules : ab120840, ab120743 and ab123768.

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Components shown from left to right :

- D-Glucose Standard

- Developer Solution IV

- Assay Buffer 7

Note : The vial labels shown in this image use generic names for illustrative purposes only and may not exactly match the specific component names included in the kit.

Note : Colors of solutions in image may not precisely match the shade of colors in the actual kit.

Key facts

Detection method

Colorimetric

Sample types

Suspension cells, Tissue Extracts, Adherent cells, Food samples, Drinks

Results type

Quantitative

Assay time

30m

Assay Platform

Microplate reader

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Product details

Total Carbohydrate Assay (ab155891) is a simple, sensitive and robust method of detecting virtually all carbohydrates.

How the assay works
The carbohydrate assay protocol is based on the phenol - sulfuric acid assay. In the assay, polysaccharides (mono, di, tri, etc.) and their derivatives, in the presence of sulfuric acid, are hydrolyzed to monomers and converted to furfural or hydroxyfurfural. These react with the developer to form a chromogen that can be quantified by measuring the absorbance at 490 nm.

Total carbohydrate assay protocol summary:
- Add samples and glucose standards to wells
- Add concentrated sulfuric acid and incubate for 15 min at 90°C
- Add developer and incubate for 5 min

How other researchers are using ab155891
Total Carbohydrate Assay Kit ab155901 has been used in a variety of sample type including:
SHK-1 cell line 1
Blood samples from mice with metabolic syndrome 2
Lattuce seeds extracts 3
References: 1-Martinez D et al. 2022, 2-Greco C et al. 2020, 3-Rawashdeh Y et al. 2020

Related and recommended products
See an alternative kit to quantify carbohydrates:
High Sensitivity Carbohydrate Assay Kit (Colorimetric) ab284543

Other Notes
This product was previously called K645 Biovision Total Carbohydrate Colorimetric Assay Kit. Biovision was acquired by Abcam in 2021.

Carbohydrates play important structural as well as chemical roles in all living systems. Detection of total carbohydrates, therefore, has wide applications.

The Safety Datasheet for this product has been updated for certain countries. Please check the current version in the Support and downloads section.

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What's included?

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Properties and storage information

Shipped at conditions
Blue Ice
Appropriate short-term storage conditions
-20°C
Appropriate long-term storage conditions
-20°C
Storage information
Please refer to protocols
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Product protocols

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Target data

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Publications (10)

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Nature medicine 31:1494-1501 PubMed40301561

2025

Personalized inhaled bacteriophage therapy for treatment of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis.

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Benjamin K Chan,Gail L Stanley,Kaitlyn E Kortright,Albert C Vill,Mrinalini Modak,Isabel M Ott,Ying Sun,Silvia Würstle,Casey N Grun,Barbara I Kazmierczak,Govindarajan Rajagopalan,Zachary M Harris,Clemente J Britto,Jill Stewart,Jaideep S Talwalkar,Casey R Appell,Nauman Chaudary,Sugeet K Jagpal,Raksha Jain,Adaobi Kanu,Bradley S Quon,John M Reynolds,Charlotte C Teneback,Quynh-Anh Mai,Veronika Shabanova,Paul E Turner,Jonathan L Koff

Frontiers in genetics 15:1505839 PubMed39845189

2025

Evaluation of controls, quality control assays, and protocol optimisations for PacBio HiFi sequencing on diverse and challenging samples.

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Iraad F Bronner,Emma Dawson,Naomi Park,Olaf Piepenburg,Michael A Quail

Microbiology spectrum 10:e0351122 PubMed36445133

2022

A Novel XRE-Type Regulator Mediates Phage Lytic Development and Multiple Host Metabolic Processes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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Xiang Long,Xiaolong Wang,Daqing Mao,Weihui Wu,Yi Luo

Applied and environmental microbiology 88:e0106822 PubMed36073944

2022

RecT Affects Prophage Lifestyle and Host Core Cellular Processes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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Xiang Long,Hanhui Zhang,Xiaolong Wang,Daqing Mao,Weihui Wu,Yi Luo

Frontiers in immunology 13:849752 PubMed35493529

2022

PAMPs of Trigger the Transcription of Genes Involved in Nutritional Immunity in a Salmon Macrophage-Like Cell Line.

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Danixa Pamela Martínez,Cristian Oliver,Natacha Santibañez,José Leonardo Coronado,Ricardo Oyarzún-Salazar,Ricardo Enriquez,Luis Vargas-Chacoff,Alex Romero

Applied and environmental microbiology 88:e0151421 PubMed34788068

2021

Selection for Phage Resistance Reduces Virulence of Shigella flexneri.

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Kaitlyn E Kortright,Rachel E Done,Benjamin K Chan,Valeria Souza,Paul E Turner

Scientific reports 10:12915 PubMed32737396

2020

A non-pharmacological therapeutic approach in the gut triggers distal metabolic rewiring capable of ameliorating diet-induced dysfunctions encompassed by metabolic syndrome.

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Carolina Magdalen Greco,Stefano Garetto,Emilie Montellier,Yu Liu,Siwei Chen,Pierre Baldi,Paolo Sassone-Corsi,Jacopo Lucci

Heliyon 6:e03983 PubMed32509982

2020

Biological interaction levels of zinc oxide nanoparticles; lettuce seeds as case study.

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Rabeah Yousef Rawashdeh,Amal Mohammad Harb,Asma Mahmoud AlHasan

Cell reports 26:969-983.e4 PubMed30673618

2019

Maternal Nicotinamide Riboside Enhances Postpartum Weight Loss, Juvenile Offspring Development, and Neurogenesis of Adult Offspring.

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Po Hien Ear,Ankita Chadda,Serena B Gumusoglu,Mark S Schmidt,Sophia Vogeler,Johnny Malicoat,Jacob Kadel,Michelle M Moore,Marie E Migaud,Hanna E Stevens,Charles Brenner

Environmental microbiology reports 11:227-235 PubMed30298689

2018

Antarctic heterotrophic bacterium Hymenobacter nivis P3 displays light-enhanced growth and expresses putative photoactive proteins.

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Mia Terashima,Keisuke Ohashi,Taichi E Takasuka,Hisaya Kojima,Manabu Fukui
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